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Glossary
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EIA unit A unit of measure, established by the Electronic Industries
Association, equal to 44.45 millimeters (1.75 inches).
eject To remove or force out from within.
electronic mail Correspondence in the form of messages transmitted
between user terminals over a computer network.
e-mail See electronic mail.
EPO Emergency power off.
EPROM Erasable programmable read only memory.
EQC (Equipment check) An asynchronous indication of a
malfunction.
Error log A dataset or file in a product or system where error
information is stored for later access.
ESD Electrostatic discharge.
F
fault symptom code (FSC) A hexadecimal code generated by the
drive or the control unit microcode in response to a detected
subsystem error.
FC Feature code.
FCC Federal communications commission.
FE Field engineer, customer engineer, or service representative.
field replaceable unit (FRU) An assembly that is replaced in its
entirety when any one of its components fails.
file A named set of records stored or processed as a unit. Also
referred to as a dataset.
file protection The processes and procedures established in an
information system that are designed to inhibit unauthorized
access to, contamination of, or deletion of a file.
file transfer protocol (FTP) In the Internet suite of protocols, an
application layer protocol that uses TCP and Telnet services to
transfer bulk-data files between machines or hosts.
firmware Proprietary code that is usually delivered as microcode as
part of an operating system. Firmware is more efficient than
software loaded from an alterable medium and more adaptable